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TRANSFER TICKET.

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LOUIs sITTNER AND JOHN w. GERRY, or NEW YORK, NQ Y.

TRANSFER-TICKET.

SPECIFICATION forg" part f Letters Patent No. 685,305, dated October V29, 190i.

Application filed December 26, 1900. Serial No. 41,049.. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom, t may concern:

Be it known thatwe, LOUIS SITTNER and JOHN W. GEERY,citizens of the United States, and residents of New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Transfer-Tickets, of which the following is a specification. 4

The object of our invention is to provide transfer-tickets for street-railroads, which may be used in a system in such a way that a check will be afforded to the railroad company to the misuse or fraudulent use of the tickets. As heretofore made, so far as we are aware, transfer-checkseould be punched by conductors or others into whose hands they might come in a way to enable them to be used in the place o f the payment of fares. By our invention each transfer-ticket is provided in connection with the other necessary matter with a suitable set of symbols or arbitrary characters which are to correspond with like symbols or characters in the office or Oiices of the railroad where the packages of transfers are given out to the conductorsthat is to say, there will be kept in the office or offices of the railroad company a number of placards on each .of which there is a symbol or arbitrary character. The symbol or character of all the placards will be printed on each transfer-ticket. At twelve oclock at night or at some other hour or hours in the day a placard will be displayed in the office. At that time it will be the duty of the conductors or other employees who give out the transfers to punch orcancel each ticket in the symbol or character which corresponds with the placard displayed, and this will continue until another placard is displayed; and inasmuch as the persons Who give out the transfers can never know beforehand what the succession of symbols is to be they cannot with any safety against detection punch the tickets in advance to be used the next day or at any time subsequent to the display of the placards in the office or offices.

In the accompanying drawings, to which reference is made and which form a part-of this specification, Figure 1 is a face view of a complete transfer-ticket made in accordance with our'invention. Figs. 2,. 3, and 4 representing the quarter-hours.

are partial face views of the same, showing modifications; and Figs. 5, 6, and '7 illustrate the placards.

Inthe drawings, A represents a transferticket, and A' the' placard. The transferticket has printed thereon the numerals from 1 to 12 and A. M., P. M representing the hours of the day, and also with each numeral the figures 15, 30, and 45, It is also printed with the months of the year and with the numerals 1 to 31, representing the days of each month. The matter shown, as at BKO, may be used or omitted or variously changed, according to circumstances.

In the row of spaces D appear designation indicating the directions or lines in which or onwhich thepunched transfer is receivable by the conductors as fare.

In' a space E, preferably located at the bottom of the ticket, is printed a series of symbols, signs, or arbitrary characters, each one of which will be printed on separate placards A to be kept in the office or offices of the 'railroad. In Fig. 1, which we now prefer, these characters consist of the alphabet, as shown at F, and also of the signs, symbols, or hieroglyphics F', consisting of a square, circle, star,

parallelogram, sito., as shown, or of any otherV arbitrary selection. In Fig. 2 only the alphabet F is used; in Fig. 3 numbers F2 are used, While in Fig. 4 blocks FE are used, printed to be arbitrary and characteristic, as in solid colors or lined horizontally, or vertically, or diagonally, or in any other suitable Way.

Inthe use of the transfer-ticket suppose that the placard, as shown` in Fig. 7, be displayed in the railroad office at twelve oclock midnight on the 15th day of December. The

'conductors receiving the tickets will punch the parallelogram on the ticket, also the month, the day, and the hour, as indicated by the black spots in Fig. 1, and this method of punching will continue until another placard is displayed in the office, when the symbol on the tickets used thereafter will be punched to correspond, so that any ticket presented for fare without the proper secret symbol being punched enables the conductor to detect the fraud, and any tickets turned in by the conductors not properly punched IOO 0r having,r more than one symbol punched acters, in combination with a series of pla# enables the officers of the road to detect the cards each bearing a symbol, sign or characdouble fraud. ter corresponding to the said series of arbi- Having thus described our invention, what trary characters on the ticket, substantially 15' 5 we clgim as new, and desire to secure by Letas described.

ters atent, is- T A railway transfer-ticket having characters thereon denoting the months, and days of the month, and hours of the day and the lines of Witnesses: to travel on which the ticket is receivable, and A. R. MOLENAER, a series of arbitrary symbols, signs or char- WILLIAM FISHER. 

